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...Blue Devils' top three scorers are freshmen--guards Kevin Swann (10.8 points per game) and Marc Rybczyk (8.2 p.p.g.). Rybczyk, who may start tonight, was the leading scorer in the team's only victory, a 83-55 whipping of C.W. Post...
...first half of the performance ended with the Flanders and Swann song "The Hippopotamus," with the audience singing along on the chorus of "Mud, mud, glorious...
...them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration, searches for the armoire or settee that can serve as the objective correlative for a character's unspoken, perhaps dramatically unspeakable, fears and fancies. One may therefore wish to approach Swann in Love or The Bostonians undemandingly, almost as one would an antique show, browsing and ruminative but not expecting to make powerful emotional connections with the objects on view. On that level, Volker Schlondorffs lightly heated rearrangement and compression of approximately one-fifteenth of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things...
...Proust the heavily draped and cluttered rooms, the constraints of clothing, language, manners and social ritual were familiar givens, matters for exquisitely observed, morally neutral description. For Schlondorff they are a malevolent astonishment. If there is a rational explanation for the obsessive, socially destructive love Charles Swann (Jeremy Irons) feels for the courtesan Odette de Crecy (Ornella Muti), it is to be found in these oppressive surroundings, where the very air breathes of neurasthenic surrender and the will is strangled in brocade. If the screenplay by Peter Brook, Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne omits or hastily vulgarizes Proust...
Perhaps Schlondorf's greatest accomplishment is his decision to incorporate Proust's epilogue to Swann in Love(not originally included in the story itself) into his film adaptation. The material shows Swann three decades later in life, when the devastating effects of an illness--and his choices--are apparent. Against the background of the new 20th century--epitomized by Odette's rise from risque to respectable--Swann is a decaying relic. Irons gives Swann the appropriate nerve-wracking intensity of a man out of time, whose tastes belong to another era. Through Irons' skillful portrayal and Schlondorf's careful direction...